When you have a preferred way of working, arranging the things you see around you will certainly make you feel more productive. The challenge in business comes with organizing the things you don’t see very often. With employees working outside the office, there are an...

Limiting your Social Media Screen time and Excessive Device Usage Most of our life revolves around a phone or computer screen. As summer comes, instead of seeking new adventures, many Canadians are settling for online games, social media and new series to binge watch....

Are Software Updates Necessary? From the antivirus that slows your “work from home” boot up every morning, to the smartphone lags that force you into an update, software seems so needy. You are not alone wondering if you have time for that coffee when your update says...

Once the world got a taste of the internet, expanding the internet experience by making it more accessible in homes, workspaces and public spaces was the next logical step. Today, we use WiFi with a growing array of devices, such as smart TVs, printers, smart...

For a reason that we all know all too well (a certain virus that shall not be named . . .), in the business world communicating with customers and colleagues from home via videoconferencing software is all the rage these days. Given the present circumstances, the...

With the shift of working habits due to the COVID-19 pandemic and many workers using remote access to work from home, businesses are more reliant than ever on servers and virtual private networks (VPNs). This change of pace has its benefits – it is the perfect...

Cybercrime—a steadily rising threat Whether you are a large organization, or a small- or medium-sized business, cybercriminals—with fingertips perched atop their keyboards—are poised to hack into your data with malicious intent. Mainstream as it now is, the Internet...

If there’s one thing businesses have learned in the wake of COVID-19, it’s the benefit of having flexibility in critical infrastructure services. Working from “the home office” has been life or death for businesses during isolation; some companies that relied on...

Two-factor authentication is an increasingly popular way to prevent forced login attempts from non-employees. It works by establishing a second “gate” of entry you must pass through to reach the valuable information stored on the other side; often times by sending a...

Once upon a time, to infect someone’s computer with a worm or a virus, you’d have to code it yourself then figure how to actually get it onto someone’s system. Oh sure, since the internet’s dark days, instructions on how to assemble everything from a spambot to a...

While movies frequently portray the hacker as a command-line cowboy, fingers flying across the keyboard as they work their computer magic against whatever foe they’re facing, hacking in reality is much more mundane. Directed attacks against specific entities are rare,...

With the amount electronic upgrades increasing worldwide each year, properly disposing of electronic waste (e-waste) is becoming even more important.  Whether upgrading a computer, gaming system, television or smartphone, ensure your business or household is not...